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This American Larch is deciduous, like others and grows to be a tall columnar tree. It has pinkish orange to dark red bark becoming scaly when old. Needles are spirally arranged on long shoots. Before needle drop in autumn they turn orange. It’s widely distributed in North America, in swampy boreal forests and is very hardy and tolerant.
Larix laricina
Common Name: Tamarack
Native: North America – Alaska, New Foundland, Yukon
Provenance: Canada
Size and Spread (in 10 yrs): approx 10m tall, narrow.
Treatment: not necessary, but 3-4weeks cold moist can help
Seeds/kg: 388,000 75% viable
Ideal Sowing: spring
Soil: moist
Planting instructions: very hardy and tolerant of wet conditions
Mature height: up to 20m
pic courtesy of Ryan Hodnett, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Hardiness | Very Hardy |
| Size | Mini seed pack (approx 35 seeds), Seed pack (approx 350 seeds) |
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